| is a shuddhikriya which means the act of cleaning. It | | | | few minutes. It is difficult for a lot of people to insert |
| specifically cleans the stomach. Since is one of the | | | | the tube without vomiting because the throat is |
| main organ in the human body and the health of the | | | | sensitive to the touch stimuli. For them it is advisable |
| human being is dependent on the condition of the | | | | to go for the vamana-dhauti since it is the simpler of |
| stomach. Hence it becomes very important for you | | | | the two. The advantage of danda-dhauti is that there |
| to clean your stomach. Dhauti is the useful activity | | | | is no spasm of the stomach wall and the water is |
| for this cleansing. | | | | thrown out very smoothly. |
| Dhauti is of three types: | | | | Vastra-dhauti: This is the most difficult but useful |
| Vamana-dhauti: This is the easiest of all the three | | | | dhauti. Here a strip of fine muslin cloth of about three |
| types. In this process you have to drink about six | | | | inches in width and twenty feet in length is taken. It |
| glasses of water and then vomit it out by putting the | | | | is washed and disinfected by dipping it in boiling water |
| index and the middle fingers in the mouth till uvula. | | | | for some time and rolled up. Hold one end of it |
| You throw up the water, which brings along with it | | | | between the two fingers and insert it into the mouth. |
| the impurities in the stomach. | | | | Gulp it down slowly. Stop gulping when only six inches |
| Danda-dhauti: Repeat the above process but | | | | of the cloth remain outside the mouth. Take care to |
| instead of inserting the fingers, you insert a rubber | | | | ensure that you do not let the other end go into the |
| tube of about three feet in length and the width | | | | mouth. Churn the abdomen by Nauli with the cloth |
| slightly more than the lead pencil. It is gulped down | | | | inside the stomach. Now remove the strip slowly by |
| slowly so that one end of the tube reaches the | | | | pulling out the other end of the cloth. This dhauti |
| stomach while the other end is held outside the | | | | cleanses the stomach by rubbing itself against the |
| mouth. Bend the trunk forward and this siphoning | | | | inner lining of the stomach wall and removing all the |
| action will bring out the water from the stomach. | | | | impurities from the stomach. |
| When all the water is thrown out, bring out the | | | | Dhauti has a great therapeutic value. You can use it |
| rubber tube. Before using the tube, clean and | | | | as a part of yogic treatment of disorders like acidity |
| disinfect it by inserting it in the boiling water for a | | | | and asthma. |